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"My other name for scump is hitlump."
"Doone the only bird that you have to keep an eye on especially around breeding time. The Magpie,…"
"I'm currently reading A Bookshop in Berlin by Francois Frankel (published in 1945,…"
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"Joan, the saddest thing about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, other than that she is no longer with us, is…"
"I hope I should hardly need mention of whom I am thinking in citing the above."
"Ginsburg stood with Clinton in the Rose Garden for the announcement of her Supreme Court nomination…"
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“The First Task of Government Is To Make Large Numbers of People Governable.”
Started this discussion. Last reply by Stephen May 13, 2018. 1 Reply 1 Like
That’s what a sociologist told me after I became politically active.How does government do that? Borrowing from Robert Burns, “Let me count the ways.”Religion is one way, and religion makes other…Continue
“Once a Catholic, always a Catholic” or “Don’t toss the baby with the bath water.” How would you reply?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Nov 14, 2018. 8 Replies 0 Likes
A man who has tried several times to quit Catholicism, but each time returned, gave me the first of those lines. i had quit in 1957 and told him I’d never heard that but had often heard “Once a…Continue
Tags: Catholicism, Catholic
Tell Neil deGrasse Tyson You Want Evidence
Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris May 13, 2018. 9 Replies 0 Likes
Evidence? For what?For his claim early in Chapter One of his Astrophysics for People in a Hurry that “nearly 14 billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known…Continue
Tags: claim, astrophysics, universe, faith, evidence
The Big Bang Doesn't Deserve Your Faith. It Also Doesn't Deserve Your Tax Money
Started this discussion. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck Dec 29, 2017. 6 Replies 0 Likes
I once heard a Unitarian minister say Unitarianism is for people who haven't kicked the church habit.The Big Bang is for people who haven't kicked the faith habit.It has preachers. They make claims.…Continue
Tags: magnetism, gravitation, electricity, faith, cosmology
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"That reminded me of hearing about languages with no relative directional terms like left and right, where everything's described in terms of north, east, south, and west. Children growing up and learning to speak in those cultures have no…"
"When I am outside, I can usually maintain my sense of direction if there are mountains or some reference point to which I can orient myself. If I am on a flat plane and the sun is directly overhead, I am lost. East, North, West, and South all become…"
"I was youngest child, only daughter, and trained from an early age to do everything for everyone, without expecting thanks. After my escape I could only think of equality and I did everything I could to get there."
"He is/will be America’s most laughed-at president."
"Remember, many xians want to reach their heaven asap."
"Most interesting, Doone. Bilateral symmetry’s origin has long puzzled me, partly because it sometimes doesn’t happen."
"Aw, our making words shorter is a good thing.
T. Jefferson changed a rule of parliament though and did us wrong. In the seldom-used filling a blank procedure, UKers buy low and sell high. TJ turned it around and we Yanks buy high and sell low."
"Rulers use religion. —Seneca(?)
What would increase the effectiveness of our attempts to proselytyze?"
"Doone, I’m wondering who in academia would say small societies make gods bigger than necessary to control those societies.
Asto Trump, he has outgrown his base in the Republican Party. His prose suggests that he’s going to make himself…"
"Stephen, I viewed the Grandeur clip skeptically, wondering if it would become an advert for the Big Bang. (NASA’s budget does allow it to buy a lot of prose and video, including whole chapters of the PBS series NOVA. I don’t know if…"
"Not the best explanation we have, Stephen; the best explanation you know.
We differ in that in the 1960s when I first learned of the BB explanation, I was studying physics and doubted it.
You doing ok?
I’ve been visiting www dot agnostic dot…"
"It is said that making good people do bad things requires religion.
I would rewrite that as Making good children the slaves who a generation later will do bad things requires religion.
That is what religions do; they make the slaves who, if…"
"Why am I rolling on the floor laughing?
I turbocharged my funny bone?"
"Complaining about young people is a defining sign of age.
Ancient ancient Greeks [That’s not a typo.] complained and ancient moderns do it."
"A math professor asked his class that if the speck over the w is a flyspeck, are flies taking derivatives?"
"And given too that a self-respecting woodchuck would chuck wood."
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- Studied math, economics & physics. Retired from computer mfg.
- What brought you to Atheist Universe?
- At birth a None. At six my dad put me in a Catholic School. At 26 I escaped to agnosticism. No lightning bolts hit nearby and at 78 I came out to friends as an atheist. A chat with a pal brought me to AU.
Comment Wall (11 comments)
- At 3:12pm on December 13, 2017,
Stephen said…
Happy Birthday Tom. Have a smashing day
- At 9:13am on December 13, 2016,
Yes Tom that really would be a smashing day when your country rids itself of the Electoral College. But all the best mate anyway.
- At 3:09am on December 13, 2016,
Happy Birthday Tom. Have a smashing day. All the best my friend.
- At 4:43pm on May 24, 2016,
Bertold Brautigan said…
Must have been in church.
- At 11:21pm on December 13, 2015,
De Nada my friend I hope you had a great day
- At 7:04pm on December 13, 2015,
Happy Birthday Tom my friend have a smashing day from us all at AU
- At 12:57pm on June 8, 2015,
Wasiq Hussain said…
Thanks Tom sir :) ..
- At 1:45am on June 7, 2015,
Yes i did say that and its true. Because it focuses on the study of nature. again and again we are told in my religion to look around and discover, travel,gain knowledge,have good physical strength.. in my religion No one says that you have to worship God.You just have to believe that he exists.. I cant give more details because of the rules of this page. But its your choice what you want to do in life no one can make you believe or make you follow what is uncomfortable to you.
- At 7:51pm on December 13, 2014,
Happy Birthday Tom. Have a great day, enjoy it!
- At 1:31pm on August 26, 2014,
Hi Tom welcome to AU hope you like it on site
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